Kardashians , who is this woman and why is she talked about so much?

[mynaturalrights]

Please explain

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. Don't know and don't care, why do you ask?

[mynaturalrights]

5. Yahoo is my homepage and she's on it all the time in the news.

I'll watch Letterman or Leno and they cracks jokes about her , but know one ever says what she does?

Why is she one the news all the time?

[msanthrope]

39. Make the BBC your homepage. Truly. nt

[irisblue]

55. Make DU your home age, you'll be much more informed.

I have some yahoo email accounts that I created in the late 90's, that page has become very sad as the years slide past.

[physioex]

2. Good publicist. EOM

[warrant46]

88. Back in my day we had the Gabor Sisters and the Start of "T and A"

The Gabor sisters are three famous Hungarian-American actresses/socialites, Magda (11 June 1915 – 6 June 1997), Zsa Zsa (born 6 February 1917), and Eva (11 February 1919 – 4 July 1995).

They were born in Budapest, Hungary to Vilmos and Jolie Gabor. The family moved to New York in the wake of World War II. Magda had played a small role in a Hungarian film before the war, so Jolie and her three daughters decided to move to Hollywood to break into the movie business.

Their claim to fame, perhaps beyond their acting careers, is that of serial matrimony: They are known for their numerous marriages. Magda was married six, Zsa Zsa eight (or nine; one marriage was illegal and annulled), and Eva five times. British actor George Sanders was married first to Zsa Zsa and later to Magda.



Zsa Zsa is still alive and kicking at 96 God Bless longevity

[Vashta Nerada]

3. You're kidding, right?

Have you been living under a rock for the last several years?

[mynaturalrights]

6. kind of

[jberryhill]

26. Are you always this rude?

Pardon me, but for the last several years, I have been running a business, putting a couple of kids through college, and doing things with my spare time that do not involve watching celebrity news. I too have no idea what these Kardashian people are about, or what their contribution to society has been.

I can assure you there have been more important things going on about which you are likely utterly clueless, but if you have nothing but an insult to offer in response to a sincere question, then I would venture that the value of these Kardashian people to society may well exceed yours.

[Vashta Nerada]

50. I'm working on a master's thesis right now.

I'm teaching some undergrad classes. And I hardly ever have time to watch TV. And even I know who the Kardashians are. They're all over the place.

That was my point.

[jberryhill]

53. So what?

And as a TA, when a student asks a question, you respond with "Are you stupid? I know the answer," and send them on their way?

And, so what? I probably kept up more with pop culture when I was in grad school than I do now, but how does this explain your behavior?

[Vashta Nerada]

56. Yes.

I totally asked the OP "are you stupid?"

Reading comprehension is a skill everyone needs.

[2banon]

62. So if even you know who they are, would you be so kind as to explain who are they?

and why the are they in the news all the damn time? I wouldn't say I was living under a rock. In fact I'm reading "News" on a daily basis on line, and not a day goes by where somewhere off to the side a Kardashian piece/clip is there waiting for my cursor to click on it by accident. Every click = $$$ so I try and avoid that as much as possible. But after years of this crap, it would be great if someone in the know, can explain why they warrant this level of notice, sans personal attacks on the character of the person asking the question.

[Vashta Nerada]

63. Wikipedia doesn't generate money based on # of clicks.

[2banon]

64. Why did you insinuate yourself in this thread in the first place?

You think no one here knows what the wikipedia is for?

In any event, thankfully there are enough volunteers that provided all the answers I needed to satisfy a passing curiosity without artificially ginning up clicks and tallies for their overblown egos or their bank accounts. Wiki tallies up how many "follow" their bios.

So get yourself a bandaid or maybe a therapist and get the fuck over yourself and your over inflated ego.

[Vashta Nerada]

66. Colleges and libraries have classes that teach people how to use the Web.

They're usually free.

Sign up for one.

Don't like my opinion? Don't respond to it with snark.

[2banon]

67. omg. you are full of yourself

making crass nasty ignorant assumptions loaded with snark, but too blind to see it. talk about projecting much?

[Vashta Nerada]

68. I'm glad you stayed classy.

[Dorian Gray]

86. Snark

Oops. Was I NOT supposed to respond with snark?

Crap.

[Lizzie Poppet]

69. Your jury results, 2banon:

...the Jury voted 3-3 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Yeah, a personal attack...but given the considerable provocation of the douchy post to which it was a response, I can't bring myself to hide it.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: What personal attacks?

[2banon]

72. Interesting.. thanks.

[sabrina 1]

27. What does that mean?? The OP asked a question that many of us are asking re our media.

No one has to live under a rock to understand the question asked in the OP.

I have never seen whatever show made this woman so infamous yet, like the OP I can't escape her no matter how hard I try.

If you have the answer a lot of people would like to know.

[Vashta Nerada]

57. Feigning ignorance is a tired and boring tactic on a message board.

Google and wikipedia can provide these kinds of answers quickly. Why even ask this question on a political message board?

[sabrina 1]

60. Why would you assume that someone is 'feigning'?

As to why someone would ask the question here rather than use google or Wikipedia? Because people like to hear from other human beings, friends, family etc. about topics they find interesting.

Do you google every question you have or do you ever discuss things among friends and family?

what a sad world it would be if no one communicated with each other anymore and just used google where all they get is a cold, clinical response to whatever questions they have.

[Vashta Nerada]

61. If it was something stupid or easy to find with a quick search, I'd google it.

Why the hell would I bug my family and friends with a stupid question?

If I had a friend call me up and ask me who the Kardashians were, I'd laugh and hang up.

[chemenger]

81. Even though Google and Wikipedia can provide quick answers

to a wide variety of questions, I have no problem seeing them posted here on DU simply because the responses from fellow DU'ers are all too often very very LOL funny. No reason for the snotty snark.

[Dorian Gray]

87. Maybe

someone just wants the opinion of people who share their political convictions. Or they feel comfortable chatting on DU. Who cares why they asked here? We're all free to not click on and respond multiple times to a topic we find boring or unnecessary.

Well, maybe not you. Maybe you have a gun put to your head.

[99Forever]

35. "Under a rock?"

Because the OP doesn't suck up the drivel offered by the starry-eyed idiots in the celebrity worship universe? There's something seriously wrong with you.

[Skittles]

4. her dad pimped to get OJ off for a double murder

also, she has a big ass and did a sex tape

[mynaturalrights]

8. Her father was on the legal team

I don't remember that , I remember Alan Dershowitz and Johnnie Cochran on the team

A sex tape explains it I guess .

[Skittles]

10. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/us/robert-kardashian-a-lawyer-for-o-j-simpson-dies-at-59.html

when the verdict was read, Robert Kardashian's expression said it all

[mynaturalrights]

12. Thank you , now I do remember it

He was the lawyer on the legal team that looked shocked when the not- guilty verdict was read.

And that was her father...

[Skittles]

13. that's because he knew damn well OJ was guilty, guilty, guilty

[OwnedByCats]

79. Have you heard of Glen Edward Rogers?

He's a serial killer on death row who claims he killed Nicole and Ron. There was a documentary about this guy and he had claimed to kill them, with his brother believing it was entirely possible based on some evidence the prosecution paid little attention to because they were intent on prosecuting OJ. I just saw the documentary today so this topic made me think of it.

If true though, it doesn't fully exonerate OJ - Glen claimed OJ instructed him to go to Nicole's house to steal some diamond earrings worth $20,000 and kill her if necessary. Ron just happened to be there the night he chose to do it.

Could be possible I guess, but probably complete bs. For a psycho like that, why not try to gain some notoriety while on death row?

[busterbrown]

16. If you watch the tape of the jury’s decision..The Simpson lawyer who looks aghast when the non...

guilty decision is read is him... Like “WTF, how did we do it."

[arely staircase]

40. and her stepdad is bruce jenner nt

[2banon]

65. thanks skittles, that explains everything..

didn't connect the atty on oj defense team.. but the big ass and sex tape seems to be about what it's all about.

That just about sums up our media and our citizenry in a nut shell.

[Journeyman]

7. My understanding is, the young ladies got their start when the eldest released a cheap porno. . .

It's not the first financial empire built on fucking people, but most of the others have been a little more publicly discreet.

Beyond that, can't tell you much of substance. Beyond that, what more do you need to know?

[mynaturalrights]

9. An empire of what ? what do they sell

[Fridays Child]

11. They sell themselves on their reality show.

They are celebutantes, famous for being famous.

[nyquil_man]

14. Famous for being famous.

Notice how hardly anybody talks about Paris Hilton anymore? Kim Kardashian stepped up to figuratively fill the literal void.

[Cha]

15. Whenever I see "Kardashians" in a mag or online I

skip over it really fast because I don't want to know whatever it is they're pushing or jabbering about. They've been in overkill mode for a long time now.

I went onto to your thread because it was refreshing that you didn't know what was up with the Kardasihan brand. Their father was OJ's lawyer and buddy.. and it just goes on and on..

[AZ Progressive]

17. At least for women, she is promoting to have a more curvy body

I'm sick and tired of the super skinniness trend among women, which doesn't promote the natural bodyshape of women and IMO is demeaning to women, not to mention making not so skinny women feel bad about themselves.

[Skittles]

19. I'm tired of hearing only plus sizes referred to as "real women"

real women come in ALL sizes

[polly7]

20. Me too, Skittles. That's always bugged me.

Slim women are every bit as 'real' as any other. I don't know why it's alright to try to shame any body size.

[dipsydoodle]

21. Maybe what some believe to be her dress size

is actually her IQ.

Yes - real women come in all sizes.

[nomorenomore08]

24. Ooh snap!

And I will third the notion that real women come in all sizes.

[AZ Progressive]

49. Who said that she was plus size?

A curvy body does not mean overweight.

[Skittles]

74. contrasting one extreme to another

it's generally plus -sized gals who use the put-down of referring to "real women", as if petite and thin women are not real - with the point being it's wrong for ANYONE to trash a person's size

[Number23]

70. +1 And the fact that she was referred to as "plus sized" in a response to your post

does absolutely nothing but bolster your point. She seems incredibly dumb and boring but she truly is a beautiful woman and in the past, the denizens of "beauty" would never acknowledge a woman's beauty unless you were able to see bones and cartilage through the lines of her carefully tailored dresses.

I don't give a flying fart about KK and have never suffered through even a minute of her and her grifting family's tv show, but anyone that considers this woman "plus sized" is a rare and special creature indeed.

[HappyMe]

83. Oh hell no.

I am fucking sick and tired of 'skinny' women being discounted as real women.

Sorry, just because I am not a plus size that doesn't make me any less a woman. I am tired of this 'natural bodyshape' bullshit being used to make ME feel bad about being 'skinny'.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Kardashian is singular, Kardashians is plural.

[Shrike47]

22. They have done an amazing job of promoting themselves.

They have no talent or real marketable ability other than attracting attention, but they are GREAT at that. People pay them to talk about their products, wear their clothes, etc. God knows why, but that's modern America,

[CorrectOfCenter]

23. T&A Industry giants.

[nomorenomore08]

25. Her half-sister is Kendall Jenner who, when I look at her, all I see is another skinny teenager.

Pretty face, sure, but not terribly remarkable. And I'm only a decade or so older, so it's not that.

Basically, I could not give less of a good goddamn about this whole family. And it's only because I'm bored/stoned at 3 A.M. that I'm even commenting on this thread...

[X_Digger]

28. I hate them for what they did to the Bajorans. n/t

[loli phabay]

34. lol my thought exactly, then getting in bed with the dominion.

[arely staircase]

41. the who?

[X_Digger]

44. See image..

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Cardassian

[City Lights]

29. I know next to nothing about them (thankfully!).

I believe they're talked about so much because too many shallow people in the US are fascinated by the rich and famous. Or maybe the famously rich. I'm not really sure why they're famous, so maybe it's just because they're rich.

[KittyWampus]

30. I had to have them explained to me too, and even now I still don't "get it".

[arely staircase]

46. oh yeah well for all you haters

Who say she hasn't accomplished anything. Just today she went to a public restroom without wearing any underwear and took a selfie with Kanye West.

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/kim-kardashian-goes-without-underwear-takes-bathroom-selfie-202500737-us-weekly.html

[Egalitarian Thug]

31. It all started with Paris Hilton when America's collective IQ dropped

below the threshold of sustainability. She is a manufactured celebrity famous for being the spawn of a very successful thief.

[LiberalElite]

32. I don't know and I don't care either -

in this case, ignorance is truly bliss !

[hobbit709]

33. Member of a whole family of attention whores.

[spanone]

36. one word explanation: media.

[HereSince1628]

37. She's someone who competes for the frick'n time set aside to watch gold miners

Well, not really, but she's gold-digging, the networks are gold-digging, the advertisers are gold-digging, and Todd hasn't got the stones to stay in country and run his frick'n gold mine.

[chemenger]

82. So you watch Gold Rush too!!

Man that Todd is a frickken moron. I am clueless as to why anyone would follow him either up to Alaska or down into the jungles of Guyana. Just one poor decision after another. Hasn't he heard of doing some exploratory drilling before moving his eqiuipment from one location to another, What an idiot.

[ananda]

38. Kartrashians take up a lot of media space.

..

[arely staircase]

42. Butt Dynasty nt

[Logical]

43. No idea. No talent except looking sexy. People are easily impressed. Unbelievable. n-t

[wandy]

45. Kardashians of more importance............

I'll go back under my rock now.

[L0oniX]

47. That was only the start. This is where it is going now...

[JHB]

48. The scaly-neck guys from Star Trek? No, wait, you mean the other one...

Need help keeping it straight

[graywarrior]

51. I just saw a Kartrashian book in the 80% off bin at Staples

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. Because people like you ask about her.

[AndyA]

54. I honestly have no idea why any of the Kardashians are famous

I find them to be offensive. They are all self centered, spoiled, snobs. And that's truly the nicest way I can think of to describe them.

The worst problem they have is the discovery of a pimple on Kim's butt, or a broken fingernail from pecking at the glass in the jewelry store ordering the clerk to pull out some outrageously expensive bauble for them to inspect.

Truly, wish they'd all go away and take their "problems" with them.

[IDemo]

58. She's the lifestyle coach for Grifterella

[jsr]

59. Because there are suckers willing to buy their used napkins on eBay

[big_dog]

71. because she posts selfies such as this...

[maced666]

73. It's a business -

Through social media they (Kardash's) look to produce 2-3 sticky stories that are picked up by web and news portals like Google, Yahoo. People click on them, thus the cycle continues on a day to day basis. The K's then turn the exposure into money via their social media accounts (endorsements, etc.)

They don't have a lot of competition so they dominate the market.

[Warren DeMontague]

75. I'm more a "Weekly World News" type

but, YMMV.

[Warpy]

76. She's a rich girl and a fake celebrity

who has no discernible talent for anything.

Her daddy was on O. J. Simpson's legal team during his murder trial and that's their whole claim to fame.

I wish she'd just go away along with the rest of her family. I wish people would start asking more of their televisions, like entertainment by people with talent.

[Warren DeMontague]

77. It's like some sort of self-iterating property of bullshit celebrity phenomena.

The OJ Trial, while based on an actual horrible event that took place in reality, was blown so far into the realm of ridiculous bullshit mediagasm that it's probably not surprising that here, almost 2 decades later, we're still experiencing subsequent ripples and aftershocks like the "fame" of the Kardashians.

That said, some of the best writing and entertainment I've seen has been on the tv in the past few years; breaking bad, mad men, game of thrones.

I think there's good stuff out there, there's just a ton of crap, too.

[Warpy]

78. You're right about the good stuff on cable.

There was even some good stuff on the networks, like the first season of "My Name is Earl." However, most of it has been pushed aside by cheap "reality" shows generating ersatz celebrities.

You have to flip over to the Spanish stations to find TV like it used to be in the US, with variety shows, game shows, telenovelas, plays and movies.

So yes, there is some good stuff out there. There is just a whole lot of really, really bad stuff and an astonishing quantity of it is generated by the Kardashian family.

[JustAnotherGen]

80. I like to refer

To them as the Kartrashians - my online buddy Count Jerkula at CDAN made it up. Celebutantes. If you want a good laugh go to YouTube and type Kris Kardashians video. OJ and Nicole show up in her 30th Birthday video she made.

Hey! We can't be all political all the time.

[In_The_Wind]

84. Hello ~ mynaturalrights

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Do you feel as if your question was answered?



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[B Calm]

85. I could care less about the Kardashians and who they're marrying today!

[Codeine]

89. Every generation has made celebrities of certain rich, beautiful women

for no other reason than they are rich and beautiful. Add in a level of media-savvy that few have ever matched and you have a recipe for stardom.